SCIENCES. - Collection of 4 works on botany and the plague, - Lot 137

SCIENCES. - Collection of 4 works on botany and the plague, in one volume in-12, marbled half calf, smooth spine decorated in the grotesque style, red title page (Binding of the period). Collection compiled in the 18th century, including 2 works on botany and 2 others on the plague: - ROBBE (Dom)]. Catalog des plantes usuelles... [Followed by]: Catalogue des plantes d'usage, rangées selon l'ordre de leurs vertus. Paris, Veuve Godart, 1754. - CHOMEL]. Catalogus plantarum officinalium... Paris, Clouzier, 1730. - BERTRAND (Jean-Baptiste). Observations sur la peste qui règne à présent à Marseille et dans la Provence. Lyon, André Laurens, 1721. - PESTALOZZI. Dissertation on the causes and nature of the plague. Which won the prize of the Académie royale des Belles-lettres, sciences et arts de Bordeaux for the year 1722. Bordeaux R. Brun, 1722. A note on the flyleaf indicates that this volume was part of a large series put together by an amateur, this one no. 56. The volume's title page is entitled Plantes / Peste.